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Study: Breast-Feeding Decreases Cancer Risk

The new findings are particularly relevant to women who give birth after age 25 and eventually have three or more children. These women have double the risk of the aggressive and hard-to-treat hormone-negative breast cancers.

"This two-fold increased risk went away when we looked only at women who breast-fed," Ursin says. "They were no longer at increased risk of breast cancer."

The mechanism is unclear. Some experts think it's because a woman is less likely to ovulate while she's breast-feeding. The fewer times a woman ovulates, the lower her risk of breast cancer.

Whatever the reason, the bottom line is clear: Breast-feeding offers broad protection against both major types of breast cancer in women of all ages.

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